"Joshua Bell is one of the world's greatest violinists. His instrument of choice is a multimillion-dollar Stradivarius. If he played it for spare change, incognito, outside a bustling Metro stop in Washington, would anyone notice?"
This article was given to me by an EBC student in "Introduction to Ethics," on the heels of our discussion about utilitarianism. I am going to mention it tomorrow in "Marx" at NCC, when we read Leisure, the Basis of Culture. It would seem that many Americans are content not only to be proletariats, but philistines as well.
I agree with Josef Pieper: the goal isn't all to become proletariats; instead, the goal is to de-proletariatize: to become human so we can "be taken from the toil of the work-day to an endless day of celebration; to be rapt from the confines of the working environment into the very Center of the world," to dwell with Him who is the source of all beauty, truth and goodness.
I agree with Josef Pieper: the goal isn't all to become proletariats; instead, the goal is to de-proletariatize: to become human so we can "be taken from the toil of the work-day to an endless day of celebration; to be rapt from the confines of the working environment into the very Center of the world," to dwell with Him who is the source of all beauty, truth and goodness.
A long, but powerful article. Stay with it to the very end.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721_pf.html
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